1. Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your Wordpress blog. It automatically recognises many advertising networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
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2. Ozh’ Who Sees Ads

Who Sees Ads is a must have for anyone using Adsense on his blog. It is an advanced ad management plugin that lets you decide who will see your ads depending on user defined conditions. You can manage ads in your templates (eg sidebar.php) or within posts and pages.

For instance, you could consider the following criteria: Is the visitor a regular reader? Does this visitor come from a search engine? Is the visitor currently reading an old post, or something fresh?
A very good way to fight against Adsense “Smart” Pricing.
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3. AmazonSimpleAdmin

AmazonSimpleAdmin lets you easily integrate Amazon products into your WordPress posts and pages. By using the template feature, you can present the products in different styles.

The AmazonSimpleAdmin plugin work with WordPress shortcodes, which let you easily integrate it inside your blog posts, or pages.
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4. AdRotate

When you display affiliate banners, it is very nice to be able to have your ads rotating so your readers will not always see the same banner every time he’ll visit your blog.

That’s exactly what the AdRotate plugin do: Automatically rotate your ads.
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5. AFLinker – Affiliate Link Cloaker and SEO Links Redirect Manager

AFLinker is multi-functional plugin for affiliate marketing automation. It combines features of affiliate Link cloaker, SEO enhanced affiliate links generator, your own URL shortener service and redirect manager.
AFLinker converts predefined keywords within the text of your website pages into clickable clean (cloaked) links.
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6. WP125

If you’ve given up the low-paying and slightly obtrusive ad networks used by many new bloggers, in favor of selling ads directly, you may have been frustrated with the excessive time involved managing your ads. Not only do you have to find advertisers to sponsor your blog, you have to manually edit your template to put the ad in, and then head over to your favorite calendar app to set an alert to remind you when to take the ad down.

Time consuming practices like those are a thing of the past. The WP125 plugin can help you manage your ads more efficiently, leaving you with more time to write new posts. The plugin adds a new “Ads” menu to the WordPress admin, featuring submenus for tweaking display settings and adding and removing ads.
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7. iTunes Affiliate Link Maker (iTALM)

Do you link to the iTunes Store with or without an affiliate program? If you answered “yes” to the previous question, you’ll probably enjoy iTALM.

This plugin adds an itunes button to the visual editor which when clicked bring forward a jquery dialog containing a search for the iTunes store link maker.

Once you found what you were looking for, clicking on any link will ask for a title for the link and insert it into the content editor. iTALM also enables the ability to directly link to albums, something the standard link generator does not normally do.
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8. ClickBank Hop Ad

If you monetize your websites, you probably already know Clickbank, one of the worldwide leaders of affiliate marketing. Clickbank also have text ads – quite similar to Google Adsense – that you can put on your site to make some money. With this ClickBank Hop Ad plugin, you’ll be able to insert these ads simply by using the dedicated widget.
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9. DealDotCom Plugin

DealDotCom is a website that offer various products on a daily basis. They also have a quite cool affiliate program that allow you to arn up to 35% of the product price.

This plugin allow you to display the DealDotCom product of the day on your blog. Of course, with your affiliate link so you will make money.

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10. Envato Recent Items

In a short amount of time, Envato managed to become a well known company in the blogging world, due to their excellent blogs as such asFreelance Switch or the Tuts+ network.

They also have a few marketplaces where you can buy various digital products as such as graphic files, WordPress themes, XHTML templates and a lot more.
What this plugin do is to let you display some Envato products of your choice, linked with your affiliate link. Simple, and extremely efficient.
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The Wordpress.org plugin directory contains 6,889 plugins as of today, October 13, 2009. Nearly 55 million plugin downloads have gone through the Wordpress system. With that many choices available, how is one to know which are the best for their blog, and which are beat? Everyone wants plugins that will help boost their blog in the search engines, plugins that will allow visitors to easily share the information on the site, and plugins that will make blog navigation and permalinks easy and efficient.

Well, Dandy Randy, you’re in luck. Today I’ve put together a list of some of the most popular and most effective plugins for SEO and Networking that will help you get your blog rocking. Of course, the most important part of a blog is the content – but the right content paired with the right tools can be explosive.

1. All in One SEO Pack

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

The most downloaded plugin available for Wordpress, this little gadget allows you to specify a name, description and exact keywords for every post and page you publish. It is very effective and automatically appends the information to the proper places to get your words spidered. It’s arguably the most important plugin you can have on your Wordpress blog, and if you only use one plugin, it should be this one. A few of the others on this list will duplicate features of this plugin but operate stand-alone – this one encompasses a variety of necessities for any blog.

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2. Google XML Sitemaps

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

Those new to the blogging arena might not be aware of the importance of sitemaps. Using Google Webmaster tools, you can create a sitemap to basically tell Google exactly where every page of your site is located, allowing it to efficiently spider your pages and get them into search listings. Webmaster Tools will then present you with information about how your site ranks in the listings, what people are using to find your site and more.

Or, you can use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to have this happen automatically every time you post, updating your sitemap and sending the information to Google, Ask, MSN and Yahoo. It even has a ton of options on calculating priority, which it can do based on comments, views, or user-defined criteria. Hardcore.

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3. ShareThis

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/

ShareThis is a plugin you’ve likely seen all over the place. It’s a one-stop shop for posting a blog entry to dozens of social sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, or e-mailing it to a friend. There couldn’t be a simpler way to offer your readers a mode of sharing on their favorite service.

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4. Ultimate Google Analytics

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/

If you use Google Analytics as your means of collecting demographic information, like most people do,Ultimate GA is a great plugin. Simply tell it your UA# and it’ll throw the appropriate code into every post you make, allowing you to automatically track the stats on everything you do. It’s all about automation, son.

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5. SEO Smart Links

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-links/

Do you ever feel the need to link people from one post to another? Sure you do. SEO Smart Links will help do that for you. If you type a certain key term from one blog post within the text of another blog post, SEO Smart Links will automatically make it a link for you. You can also designate a list of specific terms with specific targets, so any time you type those words it’ll become a link. Settings allow you to control the number of automatic links per post and more. It’s a dandy little tool, I do say. A dandy little tool.

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6. Twitter For Wordpress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/

Those who use Twitter know that with a solid number of followers, there is often no quicker way to get a bunch of traffic instantly to your blog. A number of Twitter plugins exist for Wordpress, but the simply named Twitter For Wordpress is the most effective one I’ve tried. It’ll automatically create a Tweet when you post, and even has plugin-plugins that will auto-create bit.ly links and do other fancy things. There is also widget support to display your recent public tweets on your blog’s sidebar, though the brand new Twitter Goodies is better for that, with its auto-refreshing widget.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-goodies/

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7. WP-DB-Backup

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/

I do some web maintenance for a guy who’s Wordpress-based site gets thousands of hits a month. I recently discovered he was never backing up his site, and didn’t know how to go about doing so. If you find yourself fitting that description, whether your site is as heavily trafficked or not, you should be backing up your goods. A hack or server crash that destroys your blog will set you back hours, days, or weeks – and replacing the content can often be impossible. WP-DB-Backup offers a one-click backup that can be stored on your server, downloaded to your machine or emailed to you. Scheduled backups are also possible on a multitude of frequencies so you don’t have to do it yourself. It’s just plain smart to do.

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8. WP-Email, WP-Print, WP-PostRatings, WP-PostViews, WP-UserOnline

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email/ – search the rest yourself, lazy bum.

These plugins are all by the same developer and add a level of interactivity to your blog. If you get a lot of traffic, why not show it off? People like to be in groups, and WP-UserOnline will show them how many other people are at the site. WP-PostViews and PostRatings will allow community members to see others’ feelings about a post, and which posts are most popular. Print and Email do what you’d imagine, and make easy to access printer-friendly versions of your posts available for those wishing to share them with others via digital or hard copy.

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9. SEO Slugs

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-slugs/

So you’ve got a great permalink structure figured out that shows the title of your post and category in the URL. You don’t want to ruin it by having the URL include silly little words like “a,” “and,” “it” and “the.” This plugin will make it so those words are ignored when creating your post’s URL, because quite frankly, search engines don’t like those little words. You can also create a list of other words you want ignored if you choose.

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10. Permalink Redirect

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalink-redirect/

If you haven’t set a custom permalink structure on your blog, you might want to. Creating a post with the title “Top 10 Chicken Restaurants” will normally create a post URL that simply ends with “/?p=124” or something uncreative like that. Put your URLs to work for you in the SEO department by having them pull in the words in your post title.

To do so, navigate to Permalinks in your Wordpress dashboard. On that page, select the “Custom Structure” option. In the box, type something like “/%category%/%postname%/” minus the quotes. This will use your category and name of the post for the URL instead of the default, which is simply the post number. Now when you post “Top 10 Chicken Restaurants” in category “Dining,” your url will be “/dining/top-10-chicken-restaurants/”

Before you click the save button, install the Permalink Redirect plugin. This plugin will reply a 301 permanent redirect if anything requests one of your old URLs, taking it to the new one, and ensures each URL remains unique. It also makes it so you can do this without editing your .htaccess file. This URL structure is much more SEO-friendly than jibberish.

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11. Robots Meta

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/robots-meta/

You don’t want search engines crawling every single page of your blog. There are a lot more pages than you think, and it’s not ideal to have every page crawled because it results in duplicate content being indexed. That’s a bad thing and can count against your search engine ranking. This plugin lets you specify which areas should be crawled and which shouldn’t, letting you choose the content that gets indexed. It’s literally the only easy way to add meta robots tags to Wordpress pages.

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12. Nofollow Case By Case

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-case-by-case/

You can add the “nofollow” command from your comments and apply it to particular comments, authors or strip trackbacks and pingbacks. You can also automatically set all links to open in a new window.

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13. SEO Friendly Images

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/

With image searching constantly growing, more and more people make their way to blogs via the images. This allows you to easily add alt and title tags to your images and get them indexed properly by the search engines. It’s all about the indexing, Jeeves.

Use some of these plugins and your Wordpress blog will be all set to draw traffic and easily network your posts with others. Then it’s just up to you to write something worth reading.

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160×90 Links
468×15 Links
728×90 Banner
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Afterburner has been optimised to perfection, holding performance and speed at its heart, without compromising on much needed features. The size of the frontpage of a default WordPress install is dramatically lower than other WordPress themes. The difference is staggering, resulting in an ultra lean, fast loading and high performance theme that still retains the features and functionality of a quality theme.

Search Engine Optimised Layout

The structure places the main content before the side columns in the code hierarchy which is beneficial for SEO purposes as your primary content is crawled first by the search engines such as Google.

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Wordpress is the most important and popular blog platform today, embraced by numerous individuals, CEOs, marketing managers and anyone who has a message to communicate online. There are more than 50 million blogs out there, therefore, if you are planning to stand out, you have no choice but to keep the phrase Wordpress and SEO in mind. Wordpress is an amazing platform, very well appointed, offering a lot of amazing SEO power already built in. not everything comes by default, though, and you need to follow particular tips and hints in order to make a difference.

Most bloggers tend to forget that Wordpress and SEO go together, and do not implement some of them, condemning their blog posts to invisibility, no matter how good they might be. Optimization for search engines depends on many different factors and can be implemented in many different ways. Here is what you should keep in mind if you want to implement a good SEO strategy for your blog:

� Permalink Optimization: The most important thing you can do regarding Wordpress and SEO is to use the right keywords in the title. No matter how nicely written is your blog post, if no one can find it, it doesn�t really make any sense. The right keywords can make your URL visible and more attractive.

� Tags: Tags are very important for SEO, but only if they are useful and well picked. You do not need useless and unnecessary tags; there is no point in adding tags that have nothing to do with your permalink or description. On the contrary, they lessen the emphasis given on the title keywords.

� Wordpress allows you to use Headings and Subheadings. Use them. They are defined by html code, with H1 for the main heading to H6 for the smaller one. If you are writing a long post with several topics elaborated in it, it�s a good idea to use sub headings, because this way you allow the search engines to search for keywords in the blog, and not only in the title. This way you increase the comprehensiveness of your blog in keywords and implement one of the most important Wordpress and SEO techniques.

Design: keeping the wordpress design clean, clear and simple is crucial. The body text should be written using clear heading and lines. Most bookmarking sites are against blogs, because of possible spamming, therefore keeping your blog well appointed and clear, can help your blog look more like a site, liked and appreciated everywhere. The design should also be clean because of crawlers; if Google, for example, sends a crawler to scan your blog and everything is too messy, with flashy and attacking designs and weird codes, chances are you will be ignored. Moreover, a clear design and text allows the visitor to see your text directly, without wondering where to click;

Wordpress and SEO techniques already built in the platform and these tips here can help you create a likeable site and interesting texts, with SEO interest as well, allowing your blog to be among the first results in Search engine queries.

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SEO

HeadSpace2 SEO

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. The is by far the best SEO plugin I’ve seen for WordPress. Makes it easy to manage meta data across the entire site or for specific pages/posts.

Redirection

Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Image Editing

Scissors

This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to Wordpress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images.

Contact Forms

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

MM-Forms

MM- Forms is the easiest form builder I’ve come across in the WordPress Plugin directory. It’s simplicity is no testament to how powerful it actually is which makes it the perfect add-on for any WordPress blog.

Search

Relevanssi

Relevanssi replaces the basic WordPress search with a partial-match search that sorts the results based on relevance. It is a partial match search, so if user inputs several search terms, the search will find all documents that match even one term, ranking highest those documents that match all search terms.

Search Everything

Search Everything expands WordPress’s built in search functionality to also include tags, categories, revisions, images, attachments and more.

Admin Enhancements

Custom Admin Branding

The Custom Admin Branding Plugin allows you to re-brand the Wordpress login screen, the admin header and footer with your own custom images.

MailPress

With this plugin you will be able to send beautiful and styled html and plain text mails based on dedicated themes and templates for any e-mail notification issued.

WP e-Commerce

The WP e-Commerce shopping cart plugin for WordPress is an elegant easy to use fully featured shopping cart application suitable for selling your products, services, and or fees online.

Events Calendar

Events-Calendar is a versatile replacement for the original calendar included with WordPress adding many useful functions to keep track of your events. The plugin has an easy to use admin section that displays a big readable calendar and lets you add and delete events.

Magic Fields

Magic Fields allows you to create new “write fields” as the author calls them. This basically means you can create additional types of content like pages, posts and links.

WP-CMS

WP-CMS is a plugin for Wordpress that changes the functionality of the Wordpress admin backend to act more like a CMS. The blog functionality becomes optional and the focus is on writing pages to make Wordpress as user friendly for you and your clients as possible.

WordPress Admin Quick Menu

This simple WordPress plugin allows users to add quick menu items to the WordPress sidebar. It’s designed to help webmasters have easy access to external pages such as Analytics and shopping carts in their WordPress admin panel.

User Management

Role Scoper

Role Scoper is a comprehensive access control solution, giving you CMS-like control of reading and editing permissions. Assign restrictions and roles to specific pages, posts or categories.

User Access Manager

With the “User Access Manager”-plugin you can manage the access to your posts, pages and files. You only create a user group, put registered users to this and set up the rights for this group. From now on the post/page is only accessible and writable for the specified group. This plugin is useful if you need a member area or a private section at your blog or you want that other people can write at your blog but not everywhere.

Content Enhancements

TinyMCE Advanced

This plugin adds 15 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced hr, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras

WP-CMS Post Control

WP-CMS Post Control builds upon the new controls in WordPress 2.7 to give you complete control over your write options. It not only allows you to hides unwanted items like custom fields, trackbacks, revisions etc. but also gives you a whole lot more control over how WordPress deals with creating content! This helps you use WordPress more like a CMS, alowing you to totally customise what your authors see and us

More Fields

More Fields is a WordPress plugin that adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. These boxes contains input fields, so that additional (more) fields can be added to a post. For example, if you write about books, you can add a box where you can enter title and author, etc. The boxes can be placed either to the right or to the left on the Write/Edit page.

Side Content

Side Content enables you to define a set of widgets which are effectively placeholders. Each one is empty until you assign content to it when editing a page. This enables you to extend the content of the page into the sidebar

Page Blocks

The Page Blocks plugin extends your WordPress pages by combining the dynamic content of widgets with the static content of pages. Up to four “blocks” can be added to each page (two above and two below the page’s content), and widgets can be added to each block in the same way they are added to sidebars

Page/Post Management

My Page Order

My Page Order allows you to set the order of pages through a drag and drop interface.

Dashboard Pages

Rather than have a majority of the dashboard widgets focused on new blog posts and comments it puts the sites page listing front and center in the dashboard for easier and quicker content management.

pageMash

Customise the order your pages are listed in and manage the parent structure with this simple ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface with an option to toggle the page to be hidden from output. Great tool to quickly re-arrange your page menus.

Navigation

Wordpress Navigation List Plugin NAVT

The plugin gives you the ability to create unique site navigation from your pages, categories and users using a Drag ‘n Drop Interface; arrange the items within a group in any arbitrary order. Navigation groups may be composed of any combination of pages, categories, Authors, (Editors, Contributors, Subscribers), internal/external links and list dividers.

Multi-level Navigation Plugin

Adds an SEO friendly, accessible dropdown/flyout/slider menu to your WordPress blog

Core Enhancements

WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

Assorted CMS Solutions

WPML Multilingual CMS

WPML makes it possible to turn WordPress blogs multilingual in a few minutes with no knowledge of PHP or WordPress. Its advanced features allow professional web developers to build full multilingual websites.

Pods CMS

Pods is a CMS framework that lets you create, manage, and display your own content types. Don’t bother hacking blog posts into becoming something they’re not. With Pods, create entirely new data structures with only the fields you need. Like Drupal CCK, you can set up relationships, allowing for a whole new level of interconnectedness.

Flutter

Flutter is a feature rich WordPress CMS plugin that focuses on easy templating for the developer and simplifies content management for the admin by creating custom write panels that can be fully customized (radio buttons, file uploads, image uploads, checkboxes, etc).

Ryans Simple CMS

Converts your WordPress admin panel into a simple CMS. This is aimed at web designers who want to provide a simple administration panel for their clients to update basic static websites.

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1. Write brilliant content

Let’s get this clear before we move on – there is simply no better way to improve your search engine ranking than writing great content. Simple as that. SEO is not a substitute for writing brilliant stuff.

2. Leave worthwhile comments

An increasing number of blogs are DoFollow, which means search engines see the link as a backlink (which is obviously good). With that in mind, if you read something that you find interesting, then leave a comment and potentially it’ll have a benefit to your ranking. However, (regular readers will know what is coming!) under no circumstances should you leave a comment that says anything like: “thanks. I try out on my new blog. BIG BLOG LINK”.

I don’t know if there are ten commandments in blogging, but that should be one of them; if you are going to leave a comment then make it worthwhile! Offer something constructive; perhaps your own thoughts or tips on the subject. By all means say thanks, but make sure that that is not all you say.

3. Make “blogging friends”

One of the things I love about WordPress is the community. It’s not been too long since I “joined”, but it is immediately noticeable how willing people are to help, offer tips etc etc. However, one of the things I have found really valuable is help from other WordPress bloggers; I’m an author on WPHacks, and Kyle’s help has been simply brilliant – his advice has been priceless, and from an SEO perspective, having WPHacks linking to my site has undoubtedly helped.

The tip here: go guest posting! Find the biggest site In your niche and go and write for it! Not only will you get a backlink, but you might even gain some more visits out of it!

4. Use Header tags correctly within posts

So far we’ve focused more on tips that you can’t really apply directly into your blog, but here is one you can do straight away: use Header tags and use them correctly. If your post has seperate headings (like this one!) then tag them appropriately. Below is a guide to how you should head things up:

H1 – this tells Google this is the most important thing on the whole page. For that reason, it should contain post titles, not your blog’s title. The following code will do the trick:

<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

H2 – this is the second most important content on the page, so should be used for sub-headings (as they are being used in this post). You can set headings by clicking on ‘Paragraph’ in the visual editor (as shown in the image).

Using header tags correctly to increase WordPress SEO

H3 – use for sub sub headings and sidebar elements

H4 – sub sub sub headings and perhaps go this low for sidebar elements.

5. Create a sitemap

Sitemaps tell search engines: here is my content. By giving search engines your content, it gets indexed and you get visits. Or something like that. The point is that sitemaps are an essential part of a blog’s SEO strategy and there is no excuse for not having one. Thankfully for WordPress users, you can easily create a sitemap with the Google XML Sitemaps plugin! Install it, set it up and tell Google where your new sitemap is. Done.

6. Use a search engine friendly title tag

Don’t underestmate the importance of a good title tag. Making sure your title matches the content of your post accurately is highly important; when people are searching, if you’ve got a great post on the subject but your title is about your cat then it won’t be found! The code below is an SEO’d title tag that you can copy straight into your current theme:

><? bloginfo('name'); ?> | <?php bloginfo('description'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_search() ) { ?>Search Results for <?php /* Search Count */ $allsearch = &new WP_Query("s=$s&showposts=-1"); $key = wp_specialchars($s, 1); $count = $allsearch->post_count; _e(''); echo $key; _e(' &mdash; '); echo $count . ' '; _e('articles'); wp_reset_query(); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_404() ) { ?><? bloginfo('name'); ?> | 404 Nothing Found<?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_author() ) { ?><? bloginfo('name'); ?> | Author Archives<?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_single() ) { ?><?php wp_title(''); ?> | <?php
$category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->cat_name;
?> | <? bloginfo('name'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_page() ) { ?><? bloginfo('name'); ?> | <?php
$category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->cat_name;  ?>|<?php wp_title(''); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_category() ) { ?><?php single_cat_title(); ?> | <?php $category = get_the_category();
echo $category[0]->category_description; ?> | <? bloginfo('name'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_month() ) { ?><? bloginfo('name'); ?> | Archive | <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if ( is_day() ) { ?><? bloginfo('name'); ?> | Archive | <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?><?php } ?>
<?php if (function_exists('is_tag')) { if ( is_tag() ) { ?><?php single_tag_title("", true); } } ?> | <? bloginfo('name'); ?>
</title>

(via ProBlogDesign)

As if that weren’t enough, the next tip will let you customize your title tag even further…

7. Don’t use SEO plugins, use single post meta boxes!

An increasing number of themes are coming with options for adding meta data, changing the title etc etc. The good news is they’re really easy to implement yourself, as I explain in this post (complete with something you can download, copy and paste into your own theme yourself!). What it does is create a box on your post writing page which you can fill out and when saved, you’ll create a number of custom fields with the values of what you typed in. Read the full tutorial on creating in post meta boxes here.

8. Use alt tag on images

Without an alt tag, search engines can’t tell what a certain image is. Again, WordPress users have got it easy; they can just fill out the description when they upload an image and hey presto. It’s an easy thing to do, so make sure you do it!

9. Super SEO for your comments

With thousands of WordPress plugins available, it is very easy to think to yourself “Do I need this plugin that does something I could very easily implement myslef”. Why you shouldn’t use as many plugins as you can find is a post for another day, but for now take my word for it; it’s a bad idea to install a lot of plugins. However, there are some situations where you’re allowed to use a plugin. This is one of them. The SEO Super Comments plugin dynamically generates pages for all your comments, making them indexable by search engines. Now you can rank higher for “Hi. Great post. Thanks. [big link]!”

10. Use “Pretty Permalinks”

The final tip for today is use Pretty Permalinks! Under the settings tab in the WordPress backend, click ‘Permalinks’. You’ve then got a number of options, but I’d suggest you use a ‘Custom Structure’ and have either /category/post-name/ or /post-name/. The code below will do either:

<!-- for /category/postname/-->
/%category%/%postname%/
<!-- or for /postname/-->
/%postname%/

So there we are. Ten tips to improve your blog’s SEO. Now go and reap the rewards!